This morning on the radio,
business secretary Peter Mandelson avoided the word «cuts», but accepted the need for «public spending constraint».
Earlier this year
business secretary Peter Mandelson abandoned plans to part - privatise the Royal Mail, and Ralfe says the pension problem is yet to be answered.
In London, Brown held meetings with
Business Secretary Peter Mandelson, his deputy leader Harriet Harman, Secretary of State for Energy Ed Miliband and Tony Blair's former special adviser Alastair Campbell.
Shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt told Sky News yesterday that accusations levelled at the party by
business secretary Peter Mandelson were «absolute nonsense».
Business secretary Peter Mandelson told the Today programme that the public sector reforms were an exercise in «reprioritising expenditure» between departments.
«I believe that perceptions of Labour policy are in danger of being taken backwards,» former Labour
business secretary Peter Mandelson said yesterday.
Business secretary Peter Mandelson has pointed to recent economic indicators as a sign that the worst of the recession may be over.
Left - wing pressure group Compass is supporting a campaign against
business secretary Peter Mandelson's plans to part - privatise the postal services provider.
The row centres on efficiency measures demanded by management - branded «modernisation» by both Royal Mail and
business secretary Peter Mandelson, who launched an attack on the strike in the Lords yesterday.
Business Secretary Peter Mandelson said the taxpayer could not afford to prop up jobs which «arguably have become redundant».
The clash between Labour's last prime minister and Mr Darling, who eventually held VAT at 17.5 % in his pre-election Budget, was revealed in former
business secretary Peter Mandelson's memoirs, The Third Man.
Not exact matches
The theme of the paper, co-authored by Commerce
Secretary nominee Wilbur Ross and White House National Trade Council head
Peter Navarro, an economist and University of California at Irvine
business professor, is shifting the ownership and operation of public works to the private sector.
CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety
Peter Bakker, President, World
Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute
Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former
Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa
Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety
Peter Bakker, President, World
Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute
Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano,
Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former
Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa
But when he spoke to
Peter Mandelson about the prospect on voting day, the then -
business secretary was extremely hostile to the idea.
Then, in an astounding coup, and in the week after the end of the conference, the über - Blairite
Peter Mandelson returned to cabinet as
Business Secretary.
Peter Mandelson — who incidentally made McBride's removal from Brown's operation a condition of his return as
Business Secretary last autumn — characteristically differs from the centre left on how to proceed.
Labour MPs from west London told the Guardian that a new strategy will target cabinet ministers individually, the most «significant» of whom would be the
business secretary,
Peter Mandelson.
«
Peter Mandelson is doing a very good job as
business secretary as I think everybody knows,» is the answer.
Former Welsh
Secretary Peter Hain is urging the Welsh Government to hand over revenue from
business rates to new city regions to help transform the economy of Wales.
Peter Mandelson was appointed
Secretary of State for
Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform in October 2008; he was also briefly a member of neither the Lords nor the Commons while serving in this capacity.
Cheryl Gillan, shadow Welsh
secretary, lines up from the opposition benches alongside
business, enterprise and regulatory reform committee chairman
Peter Luff.
Peter Mandelson, the
business secretary and deputy prime minister in all but name, fuelled speculation that Brown would be prepared to agree to a television clash with the Tory leader, David Cameron, when asked about the prospect in a newspaper interview.
Gordon Brown (prime minister) Jack Straw (justice
secretary) Alistair Darling (chancellor) Hilary Benn (environment
secretary) Harriet Harman (leader of the Commons) David Miliband (foreign
secretary) Douglas Alexander (transport
secretary) Lord Mandelson (
business secretary and first
secretary of state) Alan Johnson (home
secretary) John Denham (communities
secretary) Shaun Woodward (Northern Ireland
secretary) Baroness Royall (leader of the Lords) Jim Murphy (Scotland
secretary)
Peter Hain (Wales
secretary) Michael Wills (justice minister) Nick Brown (Commons chief whip) Lord Bassam (Lords chief whip)
On 16 August 2009, The Financial Times reported that
Business Secretary,
Peter Mandelson had met with Saif Gaddafi a week before Megrahi's release, and that a possible release had been discussed.
• said that there was now a «common purpose» between
Peter Mandelson and him, and that the Labour party, famously resistant to the
business secretary's charms, had finally come round.
* Alistair Darling, Chancellor; Alan Johnson; Home
Secretary; David Miliband, Foreign
Secretary; Lord Mandelson,
Business Secretary; Bob Ainsworth, Defence
Secretary; Yvette Cooper, Department of Work and Pensions; Ed Balls, Children's
Secretary; John Denham, Communities
Secretary; Andy Burnham, Culture
Secretary;
Peter Hain, Welsh
Secretary; Douglas Alexander, International Development
Secretary; Hilary Benn, Environment
Secretary; Lord Adonis, Transport
Secretary; Ben Bradshaw, Culture
Secretary; Harriet Harman, Leader of the House of Commons; Jack Straw, Justice
Secretary; Ed Miliband, Energy
Secretary; Shaun Woodward, Northern Ireland
Secretary; Baroness Royall, Leader of the House of Lords; Tessa Jowell, Cabinet Office Minister; Jim Murphy, Scottish
Secretary; Liam Byrne, Chief
Secretary to the Treasury;
of Ag, Forestry & Fisheries Kuntoro Mangkusubroto — Indonesia, Head of the President's Unit on REDD Jonathan Pershing — U.S., Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change Norbert Röttgen — Germany, Minister for Environment Eric Solheim — Norway, Minister of the Environment Kjetil Lund — Norway,
Secretary of State, Ministry of Finance Andrew Steer — World Bank Special Envoy for Climate Change Jason Clay — World Wildlife Fund - US, Senior VP Sean de Cleene — Yara International, VP Global
Business Initiatives Larry Schweiger — National Wildlife Federation, President and CEO
Peter Seligmann — Conservation International, CEO and Chairman Puvan Selvanathan — Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, VP The Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton — U.S.
Secretary of State, video message Wanjira Maathai — International Liaison, the Green Belt Movement Helen Clark — Administrator, UNDP, frmr.
Peter takes it upon himself to return wallet to the family
business Katherine works at and is mistakenly hired as Katherine's
secretary.
of Ag, Forestry & Fisheries Kuntoro Mangkusubroto — Indonesia, Head of the President's Unit on REDD Jonathan Pershing — U.S., Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change Norbert Röttgen — Germany, Minister for Environment Eric Solheim — Norway, Minister of the Environment Kjetil Lund — Norway,
Secretary of State, Ministry of Finance Andrew Steer — World Bank Special Envoy for Climate Change Jason Clay — World Wildlife Fund - US, Senior VP Sean de Cleene — Yara International, VP Global
Business Initiatives Larry Schweiger — National Wildlife Federation, President and CEO
Peter Seligmann — Conservation International, CEO and Chairman Puvan Selvanathan — Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, VP The Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton — U.S.
Secretary of State, video message Wanjira Maathai — International Liaison, the Green Belt Movement Helen Clark — Administrator, UNDP, frmr.
This year's participants are Pinar Ozyetis, General Counsel Air Miles Canada / LoyaltyOne, Andrea Cotroneo, VP, General Counsel Capital One Bank (Canada),
Peter Nguyen, General Counsel, corporate
secretary and privacy officer Resolver Inc., Megan Vesely, General Counsel and corporate
secretary Sigma Analysis & Management Ltd., Terra Rebick, Chief Counsel for legal and tax
business for Canada Thomson Reuters.